I might, now that you mention it.

[thebitterguy]

An anti-piracy ad from The IT Crowd.

Comments

[ghostwes.livejournal.com]

IT Crowd, I think you mean... great show, though!

[thebitterguy]

Thassa one.

This is a short version, too. Feh. I'm too lazy.

[elizalavelle.livejournal.com]

HEHE that's fun. I always get bugged by the serious ads of these. This was much better!

[spross.livejournal.com]

Damn, that FBI squad is supposed to be a secret ;)

[lynne-h.livejournal.com]

Of course you do know that at one point (and it may well still be there) there was a statute on the British books that said a pregnant lady had the right to pee in a policeman's helmet, should the need arise.

[thebitterguy]

How gentlemanly. I'll bet the police were happy with the introduction of public toilets.

[neosis.livejournal.com]

Did you know that NBC/Universal's General Counsel has gone on the record saying that the police spend too much time investigating and dealing with trivial crimes like theft, fraud, burglary and bank robberies (http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070615-copyright-coalition-piracy-more-serious-than-burglary-fraud-bank-robbery.html) and not enough on real crimes like copyright infringement?

[lynne-h.livejournal.com]

Have you tried finding a public toilet in England? They shut them all down because they were used for erm, unsavoury practices.....

[spross.livejournal.com]

Man I'm glad I'm not a Bobby.

[thebitterguy]

I heard you all had fancy self cleaning ones now. With steam. And robots. Or possibly steam powered robots.

[thebitterguy]

That is not surprising, but it is disappointing. Do they know they've crossed the border into shriekish hysteria-stan?

[lynne-h.livejournal.com]

They exist; we have one in Newcastle. Most people are too scared to use them as the door is on a timer to stop tramps from sleeping in them.

I'm pretty certain that Russel T muts have used them as the basis for the cyber-conversion units

[(Anonymous)]

I doubt it, they're literally trying to get American laws changed to force the police to prioritize IP crime over real crime. I just thought that little tid-bit might make that clip seem a little funnier. After all, the guys does all that aweful stuff and then the FBI's after the girl, who just downloaded a song, instead of the guy.

[thebitterguy]

Oh, man. That's just a horrifying visualization.

The sacrifices society must make to stop hoboes from sleeping in things.

[thebitterguy]

Yeah, I'm sure the RIAA would love to have squads of attack lawyers roaming the streets, seeking out those who imperil profitable IPs.